Forty-three students disappeared after attacks in and around Iguala, Mexico.
Updated 20 Aug 2026
Students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College travelled to Iguala on 26 September 2014. Police and other armed actors attacked their buses during a night of violence. [1]
Six people were killed and forty-three students disappeared. Later independent reviews challenged the government’s original account and identified evidence requiring further investigation. [2]
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Police and other armed actors attacked buses carrying students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College during a night of violence.
Source: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ↗Six people were killed during the attacks and forty-three students disappeared; their complete fate has not been established.
Source: Wikipedia ↗Mexico's attorney general declared that the students had been killed and burned at a dump, an account later challenged by independent experts and subsequent official inquiries.
Source: Associated Press ↗The UN human rights office reported torture, arbitrary detention, and other violations in the original investigation and called for further inquiry.
Source: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ↗A presidential truth commission concluded that authorities at multiple levels participated in the disappearance or its concealment; the former attorney general was arrested soon afterward.
Source: Associated Press ↗The students' families continued demanding access to military records and a complete account of what happened; most of the students had still not been located.
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